Seal of Sergios patrikios
source date: 7th/8th c. 7./8. Jh. 7ος/8ος αι.
edition published: 2023-07-24
availability: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Θεοτόκεβοήθη

Σεργίῳ πατρικίω

+θΕ οτοκε .βοηθη

+σερ γιωπα τρικι ω̣

Θεοτόκε βοήθη / Σεργίῳ πατρικίω.

Mother of God, help Sergios patrikios.

Muttergottes, hilf Sergios patrikios.

Θεοτόκε βοήθησε το Σέργιο πατρίκιο.

Many similar seals without iconography show an inscription in which the patrikios Sergios [1], invokes for help the Mother of God. They can be all dated to the 7th or 7th/8th c. Most of them differ from our specimen due to the different line breaks. The parallel seals (1) (2) are from a different boulloterion than our seal, but the line breaks are the same; the other seals show different line breaks than ours.

[1]. [...] 6566 , 6567 , 6591 .

[your footnotes here]

(1) [...], BZS.1951.31.5.121;

(2) [...], BZS.1958.106.5316;

(3) Private collection, Germany − [...], no. 451;

(4) [...], BZS.1958.106.4318;

(5) [...], BZS.1955.1.2102 ;

(6) [...], BZS.1958.106.3947 − [...], nos. 994 and 995a-b;

(7) [...], BZS.1951.31.5.2564 ;

(8) [...], BZS.1951.31.5.1110 ;

(9) [...], BZS.1947.2.800;

(10) [...], BZS.1947.2.801.